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In 1897 the Société Auxiliaire du Musée de Genève was founded with the aim of creating a new museum. [3] In 1900 the city of Geneva held an architecture competition to design a new building. The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire was finally built from 1903 to 1910 thanks to the bequest from Charles Galland. However, parts of the collection ...
The Musée Rath is an art museum in Geneva, used exclusively for temporary exhibitions. Its building is the oldest purpose-built art museum in Switzerland, and the original home of Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire. It is located on Place Neuve, in front of the old city walls, next to the Grand Théâtre and near the Conservatoire de Musique.
The Brunswick Monument is a mausoleum built in 1879 in the Jardin des Alpes in Geneva, Switzerland to commemorate the life of Charles II, Duke of Brunswick (1804–1873). He bequeathed his fortune to the city of Geneva in exchange for a monument to be built in his name, specifying that it be a replica of the Scaliger Tombs in Verona, Italy.
Barbier-Mueller Museum; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine; Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva; Institut et Musée Voltaire; International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum; Musée Ariana; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire; Musée d'ethnographie de Genève; Natural History Museum of Geneva
Musée d'histoire des sciences. The museum was established in 1964 by the enthusiasm of l'Association du Musée et de la Revue d'histoire des sciences (the Museum and review of the History of Science Association), following an exhibition of science history at the Musée Rath.
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva) Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève; ... Natural History Museum of Geneva; V. Vienna International Apartment
See also Category:Monuments and memorials, cenotaph, monument, catacombs, cemetery, pyramid, list of Cemeteries, list of mausoleums, list of Memorials, list of pyramid mausoleums in North America. This is a list of tombs and mausoleums that are either notable in themselves, or contain the remains of a notable person/people. Tombs are organized ...
The Musée Ariana, also known as the Musée suisse de la céramique et du verre (Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass), is a museum in Geneva, Switzerland.It is devoted to ceramic and glass artwork, and contains around 20,000 objects from the last 1,200 years, [1] representing the historic, geographic, artistic and technological breadth of glass and ceramic manufacture during this time.